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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Her Majesty\'s United Company of Comedians"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Her Majesty\'s United Company of Comedians")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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3151 results for: Keyword - Her Majesty's United Company of Comedians
We found 2944 matches on Event Comments, 174 matches on Performance Comments, 60 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2351
22 May 1733 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Griselda

2352
30 October 1733 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Semiramis

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but edition of 1733 lists: Semiramis-Signora Margherita Durastante; Thamyris-Signora Anna Strada Del Po; Scitalche-Giovanni Carestino; Myrteus-Carlo Scalzi; Ircanus-Signora Maria Catterina Negri; Sibaris-Signora Maria Rosa Negri .
Cast
Role: : Semiramis Actor: Signora Margherita Durastante

2353
13 November 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The Princess Royal's Marriage, being deferr'd, the Opera will be perform'd that Day as usual. Daily Courant, 14 Nov.: Last Night their Majesties, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the three eldest Princesses . . . saw . . . Otho; but his Highness the Prince of Orange was not there

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but edition of 1733 lists: Otho-Giovanni Carestino; Theophane-Signora Strada; Gismonda-Signora Margherita Durastante; Adelberto-Carlo Scalzi; Matilda-Signora Maria Catterina Negri; Emireno-Waltz .
Cast
Role: Gismonda Actor: Signora Margherita Durastante

2354
20 November 1733 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

2355
05 January 1734 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arbaces

2356
12 January 1734 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arbaces

2357
29 January 1734 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne in Creta

2358
12 February 1734 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne in Creta

2359
19 February 1734 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne in Creta

2360
05 March 1734 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne in Creta

2361
07 March 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Their Majesties' Command. Pit and Front Boxes put together at 51. [Duke, Princesses Amelia, Caroline, Mary, and Louisa present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens

Dance: La Badine by Lally, Mlle Grognet, S. Lally, Le Brun, Davenport, Olbeldiston, Mrs Walter, Mrs D'Lorme, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Davenport (with new Habits)

2362
12 March 1734 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne in Creta

2363
13 March 1734 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Parnasso In Festa Or Apollo And The Muses Celebrating The Nuptials Of Thetis And Peleus

2364
21 March 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry IV Part I

Dance: Les Charactres de P Amour by Mlle Salle. Un Pas de Trots by Malter, Houghton, Mlle Salle. Peasant by Malter. Pigmalion, as17340114

2365
24 May 1734 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pastor Fido

2366
15 June 1734 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aeneas

2367
03 July 1734 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pastor Fido

2368
06 July 1734 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pastor Fido

2369
19 September 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Mainpiece: Written by Ben. Johnson. Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s. [Their Majesties, Duke, and Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: A Burgo Master Trickd

Dance: I: The Black Joke. II: Revellers. III: Pierots. IV: Les Bergeries. By Poitier, Nivelon, Essex, Pelling, Chose, Davenport, Janno, Mrs Walter, Mrs Pelling, Miss Mann, Miss Brett

2370
10 December 1734 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

2371
18 December 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orestes

2372
23 January 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Their Majesties' Command. Pit and Front Boxes together at 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Related Works
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage; or, The Innocent Adultery Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Dance: Russian Sailor by Denoyer. Polonese by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c

Song: English Dialogue by Salway and Mrs Clive

2373
29 January 1735 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariodante

2374
01 February 1735 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Polifemo

2375
08 February 1735 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Their Majesties present. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 11 Feb.: On Saturday Night a Disturbance happen'd at the Opera House . . . occasion'd by the Footmen's coming into the Passages with their lighted Flambeaux, which gave Offence to the Ladies, &c. in the House; whereupon the Footmen were order'd out, but they refus'd to go, and attack'd the Centinels, but a stronger Guard coming to their Assistance, with their Bayonets fix'd, drove them out; in the Fray one of the Footmen was stabb'd in the Groin, and in the Body, and its thought will die of the Wounds

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Polifemo